Differential navigation for UAV platforms with mobile reference station

Rapid technology progress results in the construction of an increasingly smaller autonomous platforms, what leads to the need of very precise navigation systems. This paper presents steps of development of Mobile Differential Global Positioning System. It was designed to cooperate with autonomous vehicles of small size. Created mobile reference station allows to decrease position estimation error of low cost GPS receiver down to few centimeters.

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